Word: farragut
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...condition the Tribune Tower. The improvement at this stage is complicated and expensive but it will represent a notable contribution to progress. ... In the perpetual experimentation which has marked the evolution of the great Tribune plant [errors, disappointments, expense] have never checked its progress. . . . The motto is Farragut's: 'Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.' " One of the torpedoes to be damned by Col. McCormick is an estimated cost which may reach...